#rip

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#generally #heavens #hide #like #privilege

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. ↗

— Bono

#christ #made #person #scriptures #simple

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. ↗

— Louis E. Boone

#could #descriptions #failure #fear #life

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ↗

— Jim Bouton

#around #baseball #end #good #gripping

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#around #cabinet #consensus #dynamics #executives

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#break #diversity #feel #greatest #greatest strength

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#five #go #i #instead #natural

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#any #bare #blew #completely #door

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act. ↗

— Billy Boyd

#acting #direct #find #i #just

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#adventures #cars #day #driving #family